Digital Futurist

About Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell is one of Asia’s most sought after futurists, and is an award-winning industry recognized inspirational keynote speaker on digital. He is also a renowned strategist and global emerging trend spotter for businesses and senior leaders in today’s highly disrupted world.

Thought Leader

Chris is a globally recognised leader in his field, and an expert in unlocking opportunities for businesses. His global expertise provide unique perspective and insights for businesses of the future.

Futurist

Chris spends his life connecting with businesses and individuals, across industries, and around our hyper connected digital world. With a talent for analysing emerging trends, patterns and behaviours, Chris’s insights are compelling, thought provoking and inspirational.

Inspirational Speaker

Chris inspires change through the delivery of tailored, unique, immersive, content driven keynotes. His energy and passion is contagious. Chris provides audiences the tools, knowledge and insights needed to turn their digital journey into an incredible success story.

Media Commentator

As a recognised and trusted authority on digital, technology and emerging trends, Chris is frequently called on to provide exciting and real-time commentary in television, radio and print media channels around the region.

About Chris Riddell July 16th, 2015Chris Riddell

Digital can help change your perspective, and make things incredible

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Keynote Topics

As Australia and Asia’s most sought after futurist and speaker on digital, Chris Riddell has transformed keynote speaking as we know it.

Being an experienced keynote speaker, his award winning events are acclaimed for being the most motivating, energizing and immersive experiences around. With a blend of unique storytelling, customised immersive video and exciting dialogue, Chris takes audiences on a journey through the world of digital and the disruption we all face at home and in business, all while providing insights into what lies within just our reach around the corner and how we can embrace the innovative opportunities that abound.

“Being a futurist, isn’t simply about “putting your finger in the air, and saying what the future might be.”

It’s about “authentically embedding yourself into the very space from where true innovation, and disruption is taking place, analyzing future and emerging trends, then distilling them into a clear and meaningful keynote message, for business to be able to take affirmative and decisive action on”.

Audiences are guaranteed to walk away feeling inspired, stimulated and excited about the future.

Leadership & Culture

What are the new skills that leaders need to have in today’s busy world, and how do you create a culture that brings people together?

Customers & Experience

What does the future of customer look like, and how do organisations create incredible experiences for them?

Digital & Technology

How do you succeed in the world of digital, and what are some of the areas businesses need to focus on for the future?

Data & Analytics

Business Intelligence (BI), and Big Data have transformed the world. What’s next in this, and how can organisations embrace BI to drive growth?

Disruption & Change

With so much change how can you future proof your business? What do jobs of the future look like and how can you embrace change?

Trends & Innovation

What are some of the big trends around the corner, and who are the big innovations stories of today?

Leadership & Culture

Business leaders in todays world are in truly in unprecedented times. The challenges are continually changing, the goal posts are moving, and the pressure has never been higher. Reducing your bottom line costs, increasing your top line growth, and managing risk in a world where anything can go viral in seconds, both the good and bad. This is just the start, the list goes on and on.

Leaders have to be more informed than ever, and must have robust, trusted teams supporting them across their business, at every level. Creating a culture that is innovative, and energetic, whilst being able to acquire the best talent in the market are just a few of the items on any CEO’s checklist.

Leadership teams are also realising the immediate need to be transparent and open to their employees and supporters, and to lead from the front by example.

Topics Chris will cover in this area include

Why business leaders need to behave, act and think like entrepreneurs

Innovation is a culture – how to create an environment that brings this out

How does Human Resources need to evolve to enable business success

What does winning the war on talent look like and where do you start

Customers & Experience

Customer Experience (CX) is a topic that is gaining momentum as each day goes by. Customers have higher expectations than they’ve ever had. They are also more informed than ever before. Your customers have access to a world of reviews, data, stories, pricing, and your competitors, all from a small device in their pocket.

Customers are demanding immersive experiences. Those businesses who provide it, are growing at a rate of knots, and are seeing their businesses expand around the world. Those who are not, are at best treading water, and at worst shrinking backwards.

Your current customers have choice, and they know it. They’re already sizing up your competition and looking for alternatives. Your future customers are coming through high school and university now, and they see the world through very different eyes.

Topics Chris will cover in this area include

Why creating an ‘Online and Offline’ experience is the new normal

What does the future customer look like, and how do you engage them

How do Retail ‘bricks and mortar’ stores survive in a world of online?

Why creating incredible experiences is now imperative just to survive

Digital & Technology

The world of digital is about breaking down borders and time, and allowing people to connect wherever they are, and whatever they are doing. This is a digital revolution that we are in, and its enabled by people and by technology.

The power of networks have allowed us to innovate faster than ever before in history, and we are in an era where digital is now our new normal.

Digital touches and impacts on every part of your business internally, and externally. Employees are demanding access to systems on the go, anywhere, and at any time. They also want things to just work, and be easy.

Your customers expect to be able to reach you, anywhere at anytime, and on any channel. They want to be heard, they want you to respond, and you’d better respond quickly.

Topics Chris will cover in this area include

How to succeed in a volatile world where the goal posts keep on moving

What are the key ingredients in creating an engaging digital strategy

What role does technology leadership and strategy have in your organisation

Why keeping up with the pace of change is crucial for your future

Data & Analytics

Data is coming at us from every single angle. Intact there’s so much of it, we are struggling to cope with even storing it, let alone even making sense of it. There’s more than 2.4 billion people connected to the internet right now, and by the year 2020, the whole world will be connected.

So many businesses have been harvesting phenomenal amounts of data in their storage systems for years and years, and are not doing much with it. Many other businesses are also simply letting the opportunities of collecting data from non traditional sources just by pass them.

Business leaders and decision makers need insights and data to make effective, economical and rational decisions. If you are able to make an informed and balanced decision quickly, then you are already setting yourself up for the best chance of success.

Topics Chris will cover in this area include

The immense power of analytics and why it will support your customer strategy

How multisource data will enable your business to succeed like never before

How realtime dashboards and on demand analytics is the new normal

How predictive analytics with decision algorithms will unlock your business

Disruption & Change

There is unanimous agreement that the consumerisation of the cloud has enabled disruption, and we are only half way there. The digital economy has opened up businesses of all shapes and sizes to both be disrupted, and be disruptors.

There is no industry left unaffected by disruption, the only question is how much is yours facing, and what are you doing about it?

So many functions within traditional business have changed dramatically over the last ten years. The IT department is almost unrecognisable from what it once was, and with good reason too. It has evolved dramatically from being an overhead and a drain on your resources, to now being a business enabler and helping you grow. At least it should be.

Jobs are changing, the expectations of employees are changing almost daily, and the workforce is trying to keep up with the demands of employers.

Topics Chris will cover in this area include

What do the jobs of the future look like and how to prepare your business

How can the cloud create opportunities, reduce risk and your bottom line costs

What are the next internal business functions to be impacted by change

Who are the big disruptors in your industry and where are they heading towards

Trends & Innovation

Everything about our world is influenced by megatrends; slow moving large, social, economic, political, environmental or technological changes that impact us everywhere.

These megatrends influence a wide range of activities, processes and perceptions, both in government and in society, and they last for decades. These forces then drive trends around the world. The most successful, innovative and forward thinking businesses are continually plugged into these movements, and use them to support their medium to long term strategies.

Innovating in this new world is a mindset and a culture. Its about harnessing the power of the crowd, both from within the walls of your business, and from your customers. There will be jobs around the corner that don’t even exist yet, and these will require an incredibly fresh way of thinking.

How are you preparing for this new normal?

Topics Chris will cover in this area include

What is real innovation, and how does a well established business embrace it

How do you harness the power of the crowd to bring new ideas on-board

What are the emerging themes in your industry that you need to be aware of

How to stay abreast of change, innovation and disruption, including trends

Leadership & Culture

Customers & Experience

Digital & Technology

Data & Analytics

Disruption & Change

Trends & Innovation

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Chris in the Media

Futurist Chris Riddell is frequently requested to appear on prime time shows to provide expert opinion. Here are some of his recent appearances.